APC and Cisco

APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in critical power and cooling services for data centres, partners with Cisco to create solutions that power advanced data centre technologies. To simplify your data centre transformation, you can now install APC physical infrastructure solutions and Cisco intelligent networking products at the same time.

Built on APC InfraStruXure™ architecture, these solutions adjust easily and are standardised to meet changing business needs and future expansion. This approach provides your IT teams with:

Increased availability

Improved adaptability

Faster deployment

Lower total cost of ownership (TCO)

Schneider Electric is also integrated into Cisco UCS Manager with the StruxureWare for Data Centers UCS Manager Plug-in, which features:

Schneider Electric Cisco UCS Manager Plug-in for StruxureWare for Data Centers provides auto-discovery of assets managed by Cisco UCS Manager, allowing data centre managers to monitor the CPU/power use as well as use at the physical infrastructure.

Power capping can be set for the rack, either as automatic global power limits for all racks, or as individual settings for specific servers, as determined by your real-time physical capacity constraints.